Martin Luther King, Jr. /
Frady, Marshall.
Martin Luther King, Jr. / Marshall Frady. - New York : Penguin Group, 2002. - vii, 216 p. ; 20 cm. - A Penguin life .
"A Lipper/Viking book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-216).
Out of Egypt -- The wilderness time -- Apotheosis -- The fair country.
Deftly interweaving the story of King's quest with a history of the African American struggle for equality, Frady offers fascinating insights into his subject's magnetic character, with its mixture of piety and ambition. He explores the complexities of King's relationships with other civil rights leaders, the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover, who conducted a relentless vendetta against him. --from publisher description.
9780143036487 0143036483 0670882313
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
African Americans--Biography.
Civil rights workers--United States--Biography.
Baptists--Clergy--United States--Biography.
African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
E 185.97. K5 / F799m 2002
323
Martin Luther King, Jr. / Marshall Frady. - New York : Penguin Group, 2002. - vii, 216 p. ; 20 cm. - A Penguin life .
"A Lipper/Viking book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-216).
Out of Egypt -- The wilderness time -- Apotheosis -- The fair country.
Deftly interweaving the story of King's quest with a history of the African American struggle for equality, Frady offers fascinating insights into his subject's magnetic character, with its mixture of piety and ambition. He explores the complexities of King's relationships with other civil rights leaders, the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover, who conducted a relentless vendetta against him. --from publisher description.
9780143036487 0143036483 0670882313
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
African Americans--Biography.
Civil rights workers--United States--Biography.
Baptists--Clergy--United States--Biography.
African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
E 185.97. K5 / F799m 2002
323